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Tentacles: Enter the dolphin is a crazy new platformer with very original controls and a bizarre title. The game makes about as much sense as the company associated with the development of Tentacles, Microsoft.

World of Warcraft may not be quite as hot a topic as it once was, but the MMORPG is still hugely popular and Blizzard is looking into expanding the franchise onto mobile platforms. Yes, you could playing WoW on your iPhone.

The Angry Birds franchise has grown to become quite the phenomenon, flinging the poultry onto all sorts of gaming platforms. And now Rovio is ready to take the franchise to the next level with Angry Birds Space.

You can go ahead and game on your iMac too, using your iPhone or iPad as the controller in Real Racing 2. The OS X driving game can be played the conventional way, but it can also offer a Wii-like experience thanks to the tilt sensor in your iDevice.

Easily one of my favorite arcade games of all time is Time Crisis. There were other on-rails shooting games, to be sure, but Time Crisis revolutionized the genre by adding in that pedal for duck-and-cover action. Now, you can have a similar experience when you pair your iPhone with your iPad and make use of the new iGunCon app.

If you really wanted to get a Nintendo-flavored hit of gaming on your Droid or iPhone, you could have already nabbed an SNES emulator and a few ROMs, but that's hardly official. Well, that's changing and I think some pigs may have just grown wings: Nintendo is finally developing for both Android and iOS.

I love fighting games. As much as I like Marvel vs. Capcom 3 on my Xbox, I still find myself turning back to Super Street Fighter IV to get my fix of hadoukens and ultra combos. The iPhone version of Street Fighter IV has now received its official successor in the form of Street Fighter IV Volt and it comes with at least two very notable upgrades.

Weee. Oink, oink, oink. Few games in recent memory have captured the same kind of mass market hysteria as Angry Birds. It started on the iPhone, but the franchise quickly expanded to all kinds of other platforms. So, what's next for Rovio? NFC, it seems.

Angry Birds is a huge hit and Rovio has spun off a series of sequels. And then, you've got the knockoffs like Angry Turds. Well, there doesn't much more turd-slinging than in the square circle of professional wrestling, so we somehow find ourselves looking at WWE Superstar Slingshot for the iPhone.

As great as touchscreens may be, they rarely offer the same kind of visceral experience as you get with real buttons and real moving parts. That's kind of the idea behind Pinball Magic, a mini pinball cabinet for your iDevice that goes along with the free app.

Have you ever wanted to live out the dream of being a network administrator for some nameless corporation? Okay, probably not, but you could still have some fun playing Netwalk for iPhone 1.0. You don't have to deal with bureaucracy and TPS reports, but you do need to get a functional network going.

They could call it the Christmas Edition, but Rovio probably wanted to be a little more inclusive. If you've already got three stars on all the stages in the original, then it's time to upgrade your way to Angry Birds Seasons. Those enraged fowl are back for another battle with the pigs and, as you can expect, much of the action remains the same as the first game.

Let me preface this by saying that I am not a fan of any of those Facebook games. I don't want to know about your new fish in your aquarium, and I am not at all interested in joining your Mafia family. Even so, it seems that these games are more popular than ever and none are quite as iconic as Farmville. If you can't get your farming addiction satiated through Facebook, then you'll be glad to hear that you can take your rake on the go with Farmville for iPhone. This is a mobile version of the casual game, offering much the same functionality as its Facebook counterpart.

The gaming market on the iPhone and iPod touch started out with some casual puzzle titles and others that were meant to hold your attention for a couple minutes at a time, say in a doctor's office or other waiting room. Soon after, however, we were introduced to fuller games that were comparable to their console counterparts. But what about the RPG genre?There isn't much to be found in terms of role-playing games on the platform, but it looks like a pretty good option is coming up in Zenonia 2: The Lost Memories for the iPhone and iPod touch. The successor to the first Zenonia will be submitted for App Store approval this week, so it should be showing up soon.